Christian G. Giske MD, PhD

Doctor Christian Giske is a professor and senior physician at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute in Sweden. His expertise is antimicrobial resistance, mainly focusing on Gram-negative bacilli such as Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter baumannii, and also has extensive knowledge in antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Professor Giske is the chair of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) and is also greatly involved in the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).

He has attended several scientific events such as ASM Microbe and annual meetings of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) as a speaker and has won some awards like the ESCMID Young Investigator Award in 2012 and the Translational Research Prize (Swedish Medical Association) in 2016.